Court upholds Anti-gay law

The Constitutional Court has dismissed a consolidated petition challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. Five justices of the Constitutional Court led by Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera have ruled that the Anti-Homosexuality Act was enacted to  protect children and vulnerable members of the society. “We think that the section that prohibits gay people from accessing housing and medical care will subject them to mental health care,” Justice Buteera ruled. The Court had however ruled that sections 3, 2(c)  and 9,11(2)  are in violation of their right to health and adequate standards of living enshrined in the constitutuon and ordered that they be struck out. The  petition had sought  among otherthings to strike out from the Constitution a law that criminalises what they called “consensual sex among […]